07/01/2026
2025 wasn’t kind to my body. It started with a rotator cuff tear, once that came good I was out for two months with influenza (it was a little complicated), and to round out the year December took me out with the worst flare of my chronic back condition I’ve had in years.
Training has been hard, as have a number of other things in life. It’s hard to find the joy when your body isn’t capable of doing what it did before. But I have puddled along through, albeit at a dramatically reduced training load.
And when I loaded up this 95kg high bar double this morning, I remembered the first time I hit 95kg off the box. I had tried twice before and failed, so when I hit it I was absolutely ecstatic. Everyone in that gym knew I’d just hit a PR 🤣
So I filmed it today. A little shout out to past me, who would have been stoked to be this strong. And a mental signal to myself; we start to build again from here.
I think a lot of things in life are like that.
